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Movie-Plot Threat Described as Movie-Plot Threat

The plot was like something from a Hollywood blockbuster: dozens of foreign terrorists working with a Mexican drug cartel to attack a Southern Arizona Army post with anti-tank missiles and grenade launchers.

Paying one of Mexico's most ruthless drug cartels $20,000 apiece, 60 Afghan and Iraqi terrorists would be smuggled into Texas and hole up at a safe house.

Their weapons, Soviet-made and easily acquired on the black market, were funneled through Arizona and New Mexico in hand-dug tunnels that cut across the border.
Their target: 13,500 military personnel and civilians working at Fort Huachuca, roughly 75 miles southeast of Tucson.

But (no surprise):

But the plot, widely reported by local stations and national TV networks and The Washington Times, turned out to be nothing more than fiction, an FBI spokesman said Monday.

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No, real terrorists would have targeted, oh, I know, the national spelling bee finals (someone think of the children!). Real terrorists would also have somehow let their plans slip to a young but square-jawed FBI agent who was out of favor with his bosses and therefore not believed about the upcoming attack. Real terrorists would also have in some unexplained manner, arranged to have one of the finalists be a child from the classroom of the FBI agent’s fiancee, putting the child and the fiancee in the danger zone.
Real terrorists would also have killed/tortured a member of their own team just to show how heartless and evil they are, and would have arranged a car chase at some point.

Either that or real terrorists would have saved the (60 x $20,000 = $1.2 million) to smuggle rockets into the country and just attacked an Army post in Iraq, Afghanistan, Qatar, etc.

Hold it, I can't green-light this script unless you work in Cuban evil-doers and Chinese communists. Throw in some innuendo about how they also want to take our jobs and women, or make us learn a foreign language. Add some lasers and 'splosions and we'll be good to go.

Maybe in the UK or something, where there aren't already guns all over the freaking place... But then a hand-dug tunnel under the Channel, Spain, and the Mediterranean all the way to Morocco might take a while.

"In the last fiscal year, which ended in October, post officials caught 961 illegal entrants, according to records kept by Fort Huachuca military police. Of those, 684 were of Mexican descent while 277 came from elsewhere — though a further breakdown wasn't available."

While the implication is that the 277 non-Mexicans could have been from anywhere in the world (since everyone knows that the best route from Saudi Arabia to the United States is through Mexico), Honduras and El Salvador and other Central American nations are the likely culprits.

Sorry, this one is just unpossible and completely absurd according to current Boston Police counter-terrorism operating procedure. There's absolutely no mention of LED lights, giant clocks, some device counting down to zero, unattended backpacks, or bricks of putty that were carefully marked in bold letters with "C4", "Explosives", or "Dynamite".

"Even though unfounded, the plot speaks to the continued threat of weapons, drugs and possibly even terrorists coming across the border, he [Stephen Flanagan, director of the international security program at the Washington, D.C.-based Center for Strategic and International Studies] said."

Can someone decode this? It seems to me to be saying "the existence of false rumours of a plot increases the chance that there is a real plot." If so, this is one think tank which is clearly empty of think.